This is a supportive therapy group for individuals recovering from eating disorders, blending relational psychotherapy, parts work (IFS-informed), and psychoeducation. In a safe and compassionate space, we explore the emotional and relational roots of disordered eating. The group offers both experiential and educational elements, helping participants understand the psychology of eating disorders while practicing new ways of relating—to food, to others, and to themselves. Some of the topics we cover are: understanding the eating disorder as the tip of an iceberg, the neurobiology behind eating disorders, internal parts and their dynamics, body image etc.
Having gone through an eating disorder myself in my adolescence, I can deeply resonate with the struggles and the ways of overcoming them.
This is a supportive therapy group for individuals recovering from eating disorders, blending relational psychotherapy, parts work (IFS-informed), and psychoeducation. In a safe and compassionate space, we explore the emotional and relational roots of disordered eating. The group offers both experiential and educational elements, helping participants understand the psychology of eating disorders while practicing new ways of relating—to food, to others, and to themselves. Some of the topics we cover are: understanding the eating disorder as the tip of an iceberg, the neurobiology behind eating disorders, internal parts and their dynamics, body image etc.
This 75-minute-long session takes place weekly with a maximum of 8 participants and 1 facilitator. Here we will delve deeper into living a life in recovery, and how to sustain and expand your recovery journey so that you continue to grow and flourish. The work with group dynamics will continue and new behaviours that facilitate further healing will continue to be encouraged, alongside an exploration of recovery-based themes such as spirituality and creativity.
This 75-minute-long session takes place weekly with a maximum of 8 participants and 1 facilitator. Here we will delve deeper into living a life in recovery, and how to sustain and expand your recovery journey so that you continue to grow and flourish. The work with group dynamics will continue and new behaviours that facilitate further healing will continue to be encouraged, alongside an exploration of recovery-based themes such as spirituality and creativity.
‘Exploring Recovery Group’ is a 75-90 minute-long session which takes place weekly. Here you can get a sense of the magic of group dynamics, not just in terms of continued peer support but also in learning much more about yourself and how you relate. Trying out new behaviours within the safety of a facilitated therapy group - removing old self-defeating patterns and really uncovering your authentic self. This is a creative and experimental space for you to take your recovery to a new level and expand your tolerance for difference.
‘Exploring Recovery Group’ is a 75-90 minute-long session which takes place weekly. Here you can get a sense of the magic of group dynamics, not just in terms of continued peer support but also in learning much more about yourself and how you relate. Trying out new behaviours within the safety of a facilitated therapy group - removing old self-defeating patterns and really uncovering your authentic self. This is a creative and experimental space for you to take your recovery to a new level and expand your tolerance for difference.
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Eating Disorders Support Groups
What happens in therapy for eating disorders?
In therapy for eating disorders, patients typically describe their eating and exercise behaviours, their patterns of eating in relation to stress, their beliefs about their body, the ways their eating behaviour affects their relationships, and their desire (or lack of it) to change. Such information helps the therapist understand the origins of the disorder and the role it plays in the patient’s life, important for guiding treatment. Attitudes and feelings about food and eating, body weight, and physical appearance are common topics of discussion throughout treatment.
What therapy types help with eating disorders?
Once any acute medical or psychiatric emergency is resolved, psychoactive medication is often prescribed, requiring the supervision of a psychiatrist. In addition, patients receive some form of nutritional counselling along with one or more forms of psychotherapy. For adolescents, family-based treatment is empirically validated and considered the first line of treatment; parents and their children meet weekly with a clinician as the adults are coached on how to nourish and psychologically support the young patient. Adults typically receive some form of individual psychotherapy, intended to resolve the cognitive and behavioural disturbances that underlie the disorder and to relieve the mood disturbances that accompany it. In addition, patients may also be helped by group therapy.
What is the goal of therapy for eating disorders?
The most immediate goal of treatment for eating disorders is to save the life of people who are on a path of starving themselves to death or engaging in eating patterns that are doing irreparable physical harm to their body. Once the acute medical danger is past, therapy is required to understand the nature of the disordered eating and/or exercise patterns, establish healthy eating behaviour, and to tackle the many erroneous beliefs and distorted self-perceptions that underlie eating disorders and continue to pose a threat to health and life. Therapy also addresses the impaired mood that not only accompanies eating disorders but intensifies the danger to health and life.
What are the limitations of therapy for eating disorders?
Therapy can be very helpful for eating disorders—but that can happen only after people recognise they have a condition that must be treated. Especially with anorexia, the distortions in self-image that accompany the disorder can keep people from acknowledging they have a problem. Individuals may in fact see their eating disorder as a badge of self-control. Those with binge-eating disorder may feel too ashamed to seek help. Therapy cannot help those who do not avail themselves of it.
How long does therapy last for eating disorders?
Because of their complexity, recovery from eating disorders is usually a long-term process—measured in months and years— often marked by setbacks and relapse. Some form of help, such as individual or group therapy, may be advisable for much of that time. It is a general rule of thumb that the longer the illness has endured and the dysregulated eating behaviour has taken root, the longer treatment is likely to be needed.